"Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power."
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"No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality."
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"Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together."
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"This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard."
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"Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs."
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"The first effect marriage had on me was to increase my lack of interest in sex.... Actually our marriage was a sort of friendship with sexual privileges."
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"Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?"
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"The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another."
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"Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament."
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"Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship."
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"Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either."
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"The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly."
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"There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves."
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"They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life."
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"No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment."
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"Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write."
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"To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done."
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"I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are great is that they're telling the truth. The fact is they're using made-up names, made-up people, made-up places, and made-up times, but they're telling the truth about the human being- what we are capable of, what makes us lose, laugh, weep, fall down, and gnash our teeth and wring our hands and kill each other and love each other."
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"I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it."
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"I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere."
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